Sachini Kavindya

Image: Chevron’s Texan offering has echoes of other dubious ‘local news’ sites that have emerged in recent years. Photograph: Patrick T Fallon/AFP/Getty Images As the closures of newspapers leave Americans struggling for information, Chevron has swooped in to serve up a mixture of local news and propaganda The dire state of local journalism in the […]

This is the sixth and final IJNotes episode in our series on environmental journalism. To listen to the previous episode — Reporting on environmental crime —  click here. In early June, environmental journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira went missing in the Amazon while reporting on Indigenous peoples in the state of Amazonas. The two were

The chaotic situation in Libya in recent years has made the country extremely dangerous for journalists and media outlets, says Reporters Without Borders (RSF). Press freedom, which was non-existent under Muammar Gaddafi, has improved little since his overthrow in 2011, which country plunged into civil war and domination by militias. “The situation in Libya is

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has asked France’s broadcasting regulator, ARCOM, to order French TV satellite operator Eutelsat to stop carrying three Russian TV channels that are spearheads of the Kremlin’s war propaganda. “France cannot tolerate a situation in which operators under its jurisdiction are contributing to the Kremlin’s war propaganda in violation of their legal

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, who plans to attend the UN General Assembly session opening in New York on Tuesday 13 September, must be held to account for his involvement in the 1988 massacre of thousands of political prisoners, including several hundred journalists, says Reporters Without Borders (RSF), pointing out that, even now, 22 journalists are

Celebrated journalist Jeff German was found killed outside his Las Vegas home on the morning of September 3. On September 7, police arrested Clark County Public Administrator Robert Telles in connection with the murder. German had previously investigated and written about misconduct in the Commissioner’s office. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is urging the authorities to

Image:Sérgio Dávila in the editorial office of Folha de Sao Paulo, the most respected and feared newspaper in Brazil. Image: EDUARDO KNAPP (FOLHAPRESS) 2022-09-08. With the upcoming elections, the Brazilian journalist and leader of the great South American newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo, faces a great challenge for the country and for his newspaper. by

2022-09-08. Three journalists and editor-in-chief/WAN-IFRA board member Lina Atallah were charged with slander, defamation, and publishing false news “intended to disturb the public peace and cause damage to the public interest.” by Andrew Heslop andrew.heslop@wan-ifra.org | September 8, 2022 Journalists Rana Mamdouh, Sara Seif Eddin and Beesan Kassab, along with Atallah, were released on bail on Wednesday

Image:   Two police officers patrol a street in Moscow in August 2022. Authorities searched the homes of five journalists on September 8, 2022, over their alleged connection to a former Duma member charged with spreading false information about the Russian army. (AFP/Natalia Kolesnikova) Paris, September 8, 2022—Russian authorities should stop using investigations into so-called “fake”